“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
“Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love